What does "garden" mean?
An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
Garden
/ˈɡɑːdn̩/ adj, name, noun, verb, slang
adj, name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·Middle school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
- Grammar: garden is listed as adj, name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: album, alpine garden, ana, analects.
- Useful contrasts: barren lot, desert, deserted area.
- Usage evidence: You've been properly led up the garden path.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.
"a vegetable garden"
- 2 a plot of ground where plants are cultivated wordnet
- 3 An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.; Such an ornamental place to which the public have access. in-plural
"You can spend the afternoon walking around the town gardens."
- 4 a yard or lawn adjoining a house wordnet
- 5 An outdoor area containing one or more types of plants, usually plants grown for food or ornamental purposes.; Taking place in, or used in, such a garden. attributive
"a garden party"
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- 6 the flowers or vegetables or fruits or herbs that are cultivated in a garden wordnet
- 7 The grounds at the front or back of a house. Appalachia, British, Ireland, New-York-City
"This house has a swimming pool, a tent, a swing set and a fountain in the garden."
- 8 A road, street, or similar thoroughfare, which sometimes occupies a former garden. in-plural
"32 Windsor Gardens."
- 9 The twentieth Lenormand card.
- 10 A cluster; a bunch. figuratively
"Behind the tangled garden of microphones that had sprouted on the lectern, Goldwater spoke softly and casually about his family."
- 11 Pubic hair or the genitalia it masks. slang
"Blow on my garden [speaking of her genitalia], so the spices of it may flow out. Let my Beloved come into His garden [her pubic area] and eat His pleasant fruits."
Verb
- 1 To grow plants in a garden; to create or maintain a garden. intransitive
"I love to garden—this year I'm going to plant some daffodils."
- 2 work in the garden wordnet
- 3 Of a batsman, to inspect and tap the pitch lightly with the bat so as to smooth out small rough patches and irregularities. intransitive
- 4 To smoke marijuana. slang
Adjective
- 1 Common, ordinary, domesticated. not-comparable
"In that case, the thing was mere plain or garden robbery."
Adjective
- 1 the usual or familiar type wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
- 2 Covent Garden in London, England, or its theatre or market. UK, obsolete, slang
Antonyms
Example
"You've been properly led up the garden path."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "garden"?
Common synonyms include: album, alpine garden, ana, analects, anthology, arboretum.
How do you use "garden" in a sentence?
You've been properly led up the garden path.
How do you pronounce "garden"?
Pronounced /ˈɡɑːdn̩/.
Etymology
From Middle English gardyn, garden, from Anglo-Norman gardin, from Frankish *gardin-, oblique stem of *gardō (“enclosure, yard”), from Proto-Germanic *gardô (“enclosure, garden, house”), whence also inherited English yard. (compare Old French jart alongside jardin, Medieval Latin gardīnus). Doublet of jardin. Displaced Old English wyrttūn. Cognates Cognate with West Frisian gard, Low German Goorn, Dutch gaard, gaarde, German Garten, Icelandic garður, French jardin, Spanish jardín, Italian giardino, Sicilian jardinu.